Yes, "Band Maid" is a genre of music. Saiki's voice is super unique. Kanami's riffs are crazy creative and hooky. Her compositions are insanely complex yet easily appreciated. Misa's bass sound and the endless bass solos she does in the background... Miku's grungy rhythm guitar and beautiful harmonic vocals. Akane's super fast, super precise, super creative fills. Each one is unique and when combined together, nothing else sounds like this band.
Band-Maid is just finishing the North American Tour in Mexico City, then heading back to Japan to finish their 2023 Tour. I got to see them in Nashville and Denver, and they were terrify! As far as bass, not many bands have a MISA, and then Kanami purposely writes in spaces and parts for the bass, and we Maidiacs are the lucky ones that get to listen to it!
I was at their Sacramento show Monday night when the surprise closer for the night was....................SHAMBLES. First time they ever played it live and it was AWESOME, the perfect end to an AMAZING show!! Thanks again for the great reaction! 🤘🤩🤘
Many bass players are not good enough to be highlighted in the mix. MISA, is. And the fire was/is real. They rented a warehouse that is specifically setup to allow for using fire during filming. And this was written specifically for the Netflix Anime series "Kengan Ashura"'s second season.
Missed opportunity, again, Anastasia. Seems about time to really follow them 😏 They just finished their US tour wirh around 10 dates in August, no further plans announced, yet. Though it's definitely time for Europe and other places next, the US had their share now.
When Kanami composes, she writes for the vocals, lead, and rhythm guitars and will hand the score and MIDI files over to Misa. When Misa completes her part she send the score on to Akane to insert her drums. When they get an instrumental completed they hand it of to Miku and Saiki for lyrics. There is a lot of collaboration and feedback between themselves when songwriting. I became aware of Band-Maid about 2 years ago and quickly found out that their concerts sell out FAST. They toured a loop around the US in October last year: down the West Coast, across the Southern states, up the East Coast, and a final stop in Chicago. When they announced the 10th anniversary tour, I quickly bought tickets to the events nearest to me: Sonic Temple Festival in Ohio and St. Andrews Hall in Detroit. The Detroit Okyu-ji was great: a super small venue on a small stage (the Maids were bumping elbows!) and they put on a great show. The interaction between themselves and the audience is brilliant and they incorporate a lot of humor in their show. Band-Maid is unique in that they really aren't trying to sound like anyone else. Each of them have there own rock idols: Kanami loves Carlos Santana, Misa likes the Smashing Pumpkins and was raised on Hendrix, and Akane likes Deep Purple and Maximum The Hormone's drummer Nao. Miku seems to emulate Miyavi's energetic style of guitar play. Their style is collaborative, consensual, and cooperative much like any group of women who consider each other to be BFF's. You hear each of their voices when they play and even their sad songs have a positive energy about them.
Great comment Etoine ! I got a few coworkers hooked on the Maids and if they come to Toronto, we'll all take a road trip ! As great as the Detroit show was, I hope the Maids are able to play a larger and more exotic venue like the iconic Fox Theatre on Woodward Ave ! If you look up pics of the interior, you'd see what I mean !
@@frankandre4385 In January this year Band-Maid played to 8000 sold out seats at Tokyo Garden Theater. This was to kick off the year of their 10th Anniversary and announce their tour plans. One of the things I admire about Band-Maid are their business skills: their planning, execution, and attention to detail. They scheduled themselves to play their tour final at Yokohama Arena on November 26. The Arena seats 17,000. I think they might sell out. There won't be many empty seats. It's not a coincidence they scheduled it for the US Thanksgiving weekend. I think they're planning an Okyu-ji to rival X Japan's New Years Tokyo Dome concerts (Watch "Rusty Nail"). OTOH, the Maids seem to love the intimacy of small venues that easily sell out. I was astonished that they booked St. Andrews Hall in Detroit - 800 people maybe? I was a great show! They reserve the big venues for tour starts and finals. Yes, I looked up the Fox: that would be FABULOUS! That venue oozes charisma.
Hello honey......The reason more bands don't do bass solo's is they don't have a bassist like our MISA !!!!! She is a bass assassin that has incredible technique and knowledge. But did you hear Akani's drumming on this !!!!! Our Gorilla !!!!!
It's real fire. Just like the flames in "The Non-Fiction Days" and in "Warning". Just like they were standing at the edge of actual cliffs [a real test for Kanami, who fears heights] ("Influencer"), riding the roofs of actual moving cars ("Warning"), and standing in front of an actual explosion ("Warning"). These are not effects "painted-in" via computer -- the Ladies like "keeping it real". No fear. No sham.
Yes, Kanami's (Lead G) said on her IG that the most memorable part of making this video was that the flames were super hot, Po! Saw them debut this live at the Sacramento show, then Anaheim show this past week. They are on their way home from Mexico City to start the last leg of the 10th Anniversary tour, Po! 🦍🍌
As far as I remember, it's the only solo which Cliff Burton did 😊 And his bass does not really sound like bass there, more like a distorted guitar. I tried to remember other examples of great bass in rock, and I would say, Manowar's cover of The Flight of the Bumblebee is an amazing one. On a little bit different note, Chris Squire in Yes is very prominent. As well as John Wetton and Tony Levin in King Crimson. But Japanese rock brought bass playing to an entirely different level, of course. F Chopper Koga in Gacharic Spin, MIYU in ASTERISM, Juna Serita... and the list goes on and on. There is a video by Davie504 "This Japanese Bassist Must Be STOPPED (Bass Battle)," it seems he just randomly selected some channels on RUclips-and all those bassists were freaking amazing, even a guy with just 80 subscribers...
About why you don't usually hear bass solos in rock, the reason is very simple: i played both guitar and bass, and i can tell that, about the second, is much easier to learn the basics, compared to the guitar, so you can play a simple and effective base line to enforce the drummer and/or the guitarist, but it's much more difficult to master it, so you'll hear some great bass solos from great bass players, like Flea, Geddy Lee and so on, but it's much rarer. Consider that, in rock (obviously not in jazz or blues, where bass has always a central and forward place) lots of bass players (you can't know how many) are just bad guitar players that decided to change instrument for the reason i just wrote. That's obviously to say that MISA is a great bassist, a rare one, and one of the reasons you hear her that forward in the mixing is the same: she's a great player, lets make it clear to the audience. Another reason is to make her central, like in jazz, to clearly give the style to lots of their songs.
staying in the japanese metal, one of my absolute favorites are Yousei Teikoku. they are differnt from the japanese matal you have covered so far, but i think they are just up your alley. my favorite track of theirs is Astral Dogma, which have an awesome steampunk inspired music video. id love to hear your thoughts on Yousei Teikoku.
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Bands usually focus on the lead guitarists or the lead singer. Band-Maid allows all of the members to shine.
Yes, "Band Maid" is a genre of music.
Saiki's voice is super unique.
Kanami's riffs are crazy creative and hooky. Her compositions are insanely complex yet easily appreciated.
Misa's bass sound and the endless bass solos she does in the background...
Miku's grungy rhythm guitar and beautiful harmonic vocals.
Akane's super fast, super precise, super creative fills.
Each one is unique and when combined together, nothing else sounds like this band.
Band-Maid is just finishing the North American Tour in Mexico City, then heading back to Japan to finish their 2023 Tour. I got to see them in Nashville and Denver, and they were terrify! As far as bass, not many bands have a MISA, and then Kanami purposely writes in spaces and parts for the bass, and we Maidiacs are the lucky ones that get to listen to it!
BRAVO Band-Maid for an incredible 2023 10th Anniversary USA Tour. You made new friends, fans and smiles. SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2024!! 🤘🎀🤘Thx, Luna!
I was at their Sacramento show Monday night when the surprise closer for the night was....................SHAMBLES. First time they ever played it live and it was AWESOME, the perfect end to an AMAZING show!!
Thanks again for the great reaction!
🤘🤩🤘
Many bass players are not good enough to be highlighted in the mix. MISA, is.
And the fire was/is real. They rented a warehouse that is specifically setup to allow for using fire during filming.
And this was written specifically for the Netflix Anime series "Kengan Ashura"'s second season.
Missed opportunity, again, Anastasia. Seems about time to really follow them 😏
They just finished their US tour wirh around 10 dates in August, no further plans announced, yet.
Though it's definitely time for Europe and other places next, the US had their share now.
When Kanami composes, she writes for the vocals, lead, and rhythm guitars and will hand the score and MIDI files over to Misa. When Misa completes her part she send the score on to Akane to insert her drums. When they get an instrumental completed they hand it of to Miku and Saiki for lyrics. There is a lot of collaboration and feedback between themselves when songwriting.
I became aware of Band-Maid about 2 years ago and quickly found out that their concerts sell out FAST. They toured a loop around the US in October last year: down the West Coast, across the Southern states, up the East Coast, and a final stop in Chicago. When they announced the 10th anniversary tour, I quickly bought tickets to the events nearest to me: Sonic Temple Festival in Ohio and St. Andrews Hall in Detroit. The Detroit Okyu-ji was great: a super small venue on a small stage (the Maids were bumping elbows!) and they put on a great show. The interaction between themselves and the audience is brilliant and they incorporate a lot of humor in their show.
Band-Maid is unique in that they really aren't trying to sound like anyone else. Each of them have there own rock idols: Kanami loves Carlos Santana, Misa likes the Smashing Pumpkins and was raised on Hendrix, and Akane likes Deep Purple and Maximum The Hormone's drummer Nao. Miku seems to emulate Miyavi's energetic style of guitar play. Their style is collaborative, consensual, and cooperative much like any group of women who consider each other to be BFF's. You hear each of their voices when they play and even their sad songs have a positive energy about them.
Great comment Etoine ! I got a few coworkers hooked on the Maids and if they come to Toronto, we'll all take a road trip ! As great as the Detroit show was, I hope the Maids are able to play a larger and more exotic venue like the iconic Fox Theatre on Woodward Ave ! If you look up pics of the interior, you'd see what I mean !
@@frankandre4385 In January this year Band-Maid played to 8000 sold out seats at Tokyo Garden Theater. This was to kick off the year of their 10th Anniversary and announce their tour plans. One of the things I admire about Band-Maid are their business skills: their planning, execution, and attention to detail. They scheduled themselves to play their tour final at Yokohama Arena on November 26. The Arena seats 17,000. I think they might sell out. There won't be many empty seats. It's not a coincidence they scheduled it for the US Thanksgiving weekend. I think they're planning an Okyu-ji to rival X Japan's New Years Tokyo Dome concerts (Watch "Rusty Nail").
OTOH, the Maids seem to love the intimacy of small venues that easily sell out. I was astonished that they booked St. Andrews Hall in Detroit - 800 people maybe? I was a great show! They reserve the big venues for tour starts and finals.
Yes, I looked up the Fox: that would be FABULOUS! That venue oozes charisma.
I've noticed that Japanese rock and metal bands are much more respectful of bass as an instrument than most Western bands are.
Hello honey......The reason more bands don't do bass solo's is they don't have a bassist like our MISA !!!!! She is a bass assassin that has incredible technique and knowledge. But did you hear Akani's drumming on this !!!!! Our Gorilla !!!!!
I remember seeing a video on bass and he said if you go beyond the 5th fret on bass is useless. He never saw MISA
The bass solo, the guitar solo and Saiki's part must be listened in a whole, without pause. Yep, that's Band-maid's awesomeness 😊
It's real fire. Just like the flames in "The Non-Fiction Days" and in "Warning". Just like they were standing at the edge of actual cliffs [a real test for Kanami, who fears heights] ("Influencer"), riding the roofs of actual moving cars ("Warning"), and standing in front of an actual explosion ("Warning"). These are not effects "painted-in" via computer -- the Ladies like "keeping it real". No fear. No sham.
Kanami, their lead guitarist, said yes, the room was indeed on fire and very hot.
Not every band has a Misa.
NO other band has a Misa.😁
She's awesome
Great reaction thanks
Yes, Kanami's (Lead G) said on her IG that the most memorable part of making this video was that the flames were super hot, Po! Saw them debut this live at the Sacramento show, then Anaheim show this past week. They are on their way home from Mexico City to start the last leg of the 10th Anniversary tour, Po! 🦍🍌
Hopefully they'll play larger venues next time so tickets don't sell out so quickly.
🎀MAIDS Queens of Hard Rock 🤘🏼👑🎀
For bass solos you have to look at Cliff Burton if you haven't already. Anastasia reacts to Anaesthesia (Pulling Teeth). The copy writes itself.
As far as I remember, it's the only solo which Cliff Burton did 😊 And his bass does not really sound like bass there, more like a distorted guitar.
I tried to remember other examples of great bass in rock, and I would say, Manowar's cover of The Flight of the Bumblebee is an amazing one.
On a little bit different note, Chris Squire in Yes is very prominent. As well as John Wetton and Tony Levin in King Crimson.
But Japanese rock brought bass playing to an entirely different level, of course. F Chopper Koga in Gacharic Spin, MIYU in ASTERISM, Juna Serita... and the list goes on and on. There is a video by Davie504 "This Japanese Bassist Must Be STOPPED (Bass Battle)," it seems he just randomly selected some channels on RUclips-and all those bassists were freaking amazing, even a guy with just 80 subscribers...
About why you don't usually hear bass solos in rock, the reason is very simple: i played both guitar and bass, and i can tell that, about the second, is much easier to learn the basics, compared to the guitar, so you can play a simple and effective base line to enforce the drummer and/or the guitarist, but it's much more difficult to master it, so you'll hear some great bass solos from great bass players, like Flea, Geddy Lee and so on, but it's much rarer. Consider that, in rock (obviously not in jazz or blues, where bass has always a central and forward place) lots of bass players (you can't know how many) are just bad guitar players that decided to change instrument for the reason i just wrote. That's obviously to say that MISA is a great bassist, a rare one, and one of the reasons you hear her that forward in the mixing is the same: she's a great player, lets make it clear to the audience. Another reason is to make her central, like in jazz, to clearly give the style to lots of their songs.
Sugoi! Saw them Oct. 2022 in Maryland and this May in North Carolina (where I paid $146 for VIP). Both shows were amazing and FUN!!!
Arigatou! 🤘🤘
Yes, it was real fire🔥
Maids said that it was quite hot while filming this MV😉
Band Maid rocks!! 🤘🤘🤘
staying in the japanese metal, one of my absolute favorites are Yousei Teikoku. they are differnt from the japanese matal you have covered so far, but i think they are just up your alley. my favorite track of theirs is Astral Dogma, which have an awesome steampunk inspired music video. id love to hear your thoughts on Yousei Teikoku.
Rock on, Anastasia. 🤘😎👍
I will buy your ticket next time ! And I travel to see the Maids 🤘❤️🔥
Yes, BAD Anastasia! Hopefully they will be back around next year...
I hope to see you react to another all female Japanese band "East Of Eden / Evolve" I do think you will love it 🙂😊
bass solo is so sexy, couldn't agree more 🤘
Are they coming back in 2024? If they do, NATO might disband!!! Thanks for the reaction Luna.
I play music for more than 20 years & I feel shame because this female play better than me. They're women, how can that possible.
Bands don't do bass solos because they don't have MISA.
🙏U❣
Can you reach to Dimas Senopati cover of skid row 18 and live